The Performance!! =)

   Hello everyone! How did your weekend go?

   Well, if you remember, last Friday, my students had to perform the song "When you're Gone" from Avrile Lavigne at School "Paula Domínguez de Bazán".

   The idea was for them to perform at around 10:30 in the morning. So, I decided to go to school earlier (even though I do not work on Fridays, but, it was a special occasion). I arrived at school at 9 a.m. and checked the Hall where students had to sing and tried to see which devices and elements I could count on for the performance. Fortunately, there were two microphones and the Projector so as to display the Power Point Presentation with the lyrics of the song.

   Since one of the girls didn't want to sing, I gave her the task to be my assitant and to push play on the track when the girls sang, along with the Power Point Presentation. I looked for that girl for both of us to have everything ready for later in that morning. She had to find another computer to be able to display the PPP. In the meantime, I went upstairs and practised the song with the rest of my students for about twice or three times and then, I told them to go downstairs and get ready.

   The Hall was full, a lot of students and teachers were there so as to see the different presentations carried out there. After about 20 minutes, it was my students' turn to sing. I had to introduce them and introduce myself as well. So I grabbed the microphone and I don't know how, but I could speak without being scared. Then, I called my students. They were all nervous and didn't want to go inside the Hall. Once they did and saw how many people there were there, they got even more nervous.

   I could finally manage to make them go upstage and separated them a little bit because otherwise the PPP was not going to be seen by the audience. 
Finally, the lights were switched off and the song started. Some students were demotivated because the students who were in the Hall were talking and the acoustics got lost because of it. But I encouraged them to continue singing. 

The Final Outcome:

   My students' performance was great!! I felt really proud of them! They followed all my guidelines and they sounded perfectly tuned! They didn't make any mistakes and even though their voices were a little bit low, they were homogeneous!! Some teachers told me that they sounded beautifully!! 
But... The story does not end there...

   After they finished singing and after the people's applause, my students didn't want to go downstage. I didn't know what was going on with them. They stood still were they were. And then, after a minute or two, to my surprise, the student who was my assitant went upstage and gave me a gorgeous bouquet representing the entire course!! I was astonished!! But I loved their gesture!! They were happy and I was happy as well!! 



   Here I share with you the picture that I took with my students and a picture of the beautiful bouquet they gave me!!